WEEKEND ROUNDUP: Katie Nageotte sharpens up for Trials with win at Music City Track Carnival...
Nageotte, fresh off a win at the Doha Diamond League stop last week, easily took care of the competition, as her opening height of 14-5.5 (4.41m) would have been good enough to take the win.
After needing two attempts to make 15-1.5 (4.61m), she cleared 15-7 (4.75m) and the ultimate winning height of 15-11 (4.85m), before bowing out with three misses at 16-2.75 (4.95m), two centimeters better than her world leading mark of 16-2.
Training partner & West Seattle HS grad Chloe Cunliffe cleared a season best 14-1.75 (4.31m) to finish sixth.
Washington State alum CJ Allen made a major breakthrough, dropping his personal best in the 400 hurdles to 48.97 in finishing third, as Trevor Bassitt won in 48.80.
Allen, who is already qualified for the US Olympic Trials, missed the Olympic Games standard of 48.90.
Bonney Lake HS grad and 2016 Cape Verde Olympian Jordin Andrade finished sixth in the race, running 51.63.
Complete results of the Music City Track Carnival are available here.
In Hengelo, The Netherlands, reigning world champion at 10000 meters and former Nike Oregon Project team member Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands set a world record over the 25-lap distance Sunday at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games.
Hassan took more than 10 seconds off the 29:17.45 global mark for the 25-lap event which had been set by Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, as she ran 29:06.82, lapping the entire field, which included Washington alum Izzi Batt-Doyle, who was one of three Australians looking to hit the Olympic Games standard of 31:25.00.
In the excitement of Hassan's world record, strong results did not follow for the Australian trio who all found themselves in a compromising position after officials left the world record time on the clock during the race, and lap counter at zero as other athletes attempted to finish the race.
Batt-Doyle, along with fellow Aussies Genevieve Gregson and Rose Davies stopped racing for 30 seconds, thinking they were finished when actually they had a lap to go.
The UW alum, who already has the Olympic standard at 5000 meters, finished 12th in a time of 32:52.25.
Athletics Australia's report is available here.
Finally, in Prairie View, Texas, Western Washington alum Katie Reichert finished fourth in the javelin at the USATF Showcase meet Sunday.
Reichert threw 162-3 (49.46m), as Canada's Liz Gleadle won with a throw of 207-3 (63.17m).
Tacoma native Marcus Chambers was entered in the meet in the 400 meters as well as at the Music City Track Carnival, but didn't appear at either meet.
Complete results of the USATF Showcase meet are available here.
NOTE: The American Track League, Music City Track Carnival, USATF, World Athletics, FBK Games, and Athletics Australia contributed to this report.
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